Willa Cather Quotes
When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord.
Quotes to Explore
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Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.
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A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.
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We need a reasonable price where producers will not start nagging. At a reasonable price, we can invest to produce more oil.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer.
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I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
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When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.
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Think both big and small. Loving to bake doesn't only mean becoming a baker. It could mean starting a blog, becoming a food photographer, or going into organic chemistry.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism.
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We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
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The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.
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I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.
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Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.
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Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.
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Nellie Kim, an Olympic champion from the former Soviet Union, got a 10 right after me in '76, but nobody talks about that.
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I suppose I could let bygones be bygones, forgive and forget, yadda yadda. But where's the fun in that? These pretty little bitches got everything I ever wanted, and now I'm going to make sure they get exactly what they deserve. Does that make me sound awful? Sorry, but as every pretty little liar knows, sometimes the truth's ugly-and it always hurts. I'll be watching.... Mwah! -A
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Because others cannot vibrate in your experience, they cannot affect the outcome of your experience. They can hold their opinions, but unless their opinion affects your opinion, their opinion matters not at all. A million people could be pushing against you, and it would not negatively affect you unless you push back. They are affecting what happens in their experience. They are affecting their point of attraction - but it does not affect you unless you push against them.
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My mum came from nothing and didn't have many opportunities in her youth, and she blames a lot of her social inadequacies on that.
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For most affairs, this eventually becomes the most fundamental of questions, the only one that matters: Do we love each other more than the lives we already have? It is the question that hovers in the background of every secret phone call, flavors every tryst with the head of possibilities of apocalypse and renewal; and it is the answer to that question, or the lack thereof, that so often dooms an affair to failure.
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When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord.
